In the devotional book My Heart -- Christ’s Home Through the Year, Rick Ezell wrote this: “In his book Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes: ‘There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money ...
Douglas Maurer, 15, of Creve Coeur, Missouri, had been feeling bad for several days. Mrs. Maurer took Douglas to the hospital in St. Louis where he was diagnosed as having leukemia. The doctors ...
Troubled Youth When Dr. R.A. Torrey was a young man, he had no faith in God or the Bible. His mother however, was a devout Christian who constantly prayed for his conversion and often witnessed to him...
The pathway to being lost in the middle of your own ministry story is a road that has been traveled by many. Inspecting their journey can help you understand yours....
"It is, perhaps, an overbold beginning, but I will venture to say that with its preaching, Christianity stands or falls." – P.T. Forsyth...
In a sermon on the Lordship of Christ, Roger Willmore says, "For Jesus to become Lord of a person's life involves absolute and total surrender. I can think of no better example of total surrender than...
The focus from the pulpit is where the focus of the congregation's heart is going to be....
Soon after Augustine's conversion, he was walking down the street and passed by a prostitute whom he had known most intimately. She called but he would not answer. He kept right on walking....
Owning up to one's shirked responsibility leaves room for a steady calm....
"Only those who love the Church," Wallace M. Alston, Jr. of Princeton, NJ's Nassau Presbyterian Church observed, "and believe in that for which it stands can be expected to support it with their stewa...
Mignon McLaughlin wrote, "One of life's few really reliable pleasures is to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week." That fits with what one grandfather said about his grandchildren: "I ...
When we read that Jesus is the Water of Life we think of all the usual things that water does: quenches thirst, cleanses, refreshes, makes life possible. We draw a parallel between those functions and...
No one could say that George Smith didn't have courage. A daring jet test pilot in the 1950's, back when the sound barrier was first being broken, he could face anything - until he had to bail out of ...
A little girl, dressed as an angel in a Christmas pageant was told to come down the center aisle. The child asked, “Do you want me to walk or fly?” You feel as though she almost could have flown. Don’...
Traveling on a plane next to a salesman, Billy Graham asked him, "Are you paid anything for all the swearing you do?" "No," was the startled reply, "I do it for nothing." "Nothing?" cried the famous p...
In the fifteenth century, the Aztec people practiced human sacrifice on an unprecedented scale. They believed that human sacrifices were necessary to fuel the sun, and without such sacrifices the f...